I think with most coins people are smart enough to realize what is keeping the price down, but if people are just placing large sells on JPC hoping for someone to just buy them all up when crypto is in the volume slump it's in and while btc is down in value, I guess they're just noobs.
Hard to say for sure. I agree with what you're saying though. I see the same price "control" going on with MYR as well, and both JPC and MYR seem to have a solid future and dev team. It also wouldn't take a very large whale to control coins with this small of volume currently.